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energy needs. that is about to change -- that represents about 10% of u.s. energy needs. that's about to change. >> after years of talking about it, we are poised to control our own energy future. >> some experts predict united states will be energy and attended by 2035. ow will that affect canada's $40 billion oil patch and will energy independence mean for u.s. foreign policy? what does it mean for pipelines? the canadian government is anxiously awaiting a decision from the white house on the proposed keystone xl pipeline. it would carry oil nearly 2,000 miles to refineries on the u.s. gulf coast. john kerry, who long campaign to cut greenhouse gas emissions, will ultimately recommend the approval or rejection of the pipeline to the president. he is not tipping his hand , his stand on the project -- his hand on where he stands on the project. >> we have a legitimate process on the way and i intend to honor that. >> those pipeline opponents gathered in washington by the thousands, calling on the president to reject keystone. >> if you let this pipeline go through, the fi
energy needs. that is about to change -- that represents about 10% of u.s. energy needs. that's about to change. >> after years of talking about it, we are poised to control our own energy future. >> some experts predict united states will be energy and attended by 2035. ow will that affect canada's $40 billion oil patch and will energy independence mean for u.s. foreign policy? what does it mean for pipelines? the canadian government is anxiously awaiting a decision from the white...
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. >> and there's a lot of rhetorical energy spent around this building, appropriately so, making the point that we want to make sure we keep our commitments to those who have invested through a lifetime of social security and medicare. certainly a commitment i intend to keep. i know of no one on either side of the aisle who believes any differently. if you saw that number and saw that we were going to increase by 40% by 2023, but you also knew that we were going to increase our work force by 40%, by 2023, so that you had the same number of taxpayers putting -- footing the bill for those benefits, or at least per recipient, then you wouldn't be neerm as alarmed by that number as you might be in a scenario that's far different. so i was hoping you could comment just a minute about maybe the historical trend of how many taxpayers we've had per recipient in those programs and where we're going in that same trend. >> yes, congressman. so, we project that the labor force will grow much more slowly in the coming decade than it has grown over the past several decades. and there are two main
. >> and there's a lot of rhetorical energy spent around this building, appropriately so, making the point that we want to make sure we keep our commitments to those who have invested through a lifetime of social security and medicare. certainly a commitment i intend to keep. i know of no one on either side of the aisle who believes any differently. if you saw that number and saw that we were going to increase by 40% by 2023, but you also knew that we were going to increase our work force...
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most agree with the goal of energy independence and continuing the energy revolution. as part of an all-of-the-above strategy we need to domestically produce more oil, coal, natural gas and renewable energy like hydropower by utilizing currently untapped resources -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. mr. whitfield: i yield the gentlelady three additional minutes. mrs. mcmorris rodgers: thank you very much. there was a recent study that showed we could double hydropower production in this country without building a new dam. simply by investing in new technologies, new turbines, only 3% of the dams in the country produce electricity. we could also in this process create 700,000 jobs. unleashing american ingenuity to increase hydropower production will lower energy costs and help create thousands of jobs. mr. chairman, i urge all of my colleagues to support american energy, support h.r. 267 and i thank you and i yield back my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back. the gentleman from new mexico is recognized. mr. lujan: i yield
most agree with the goal of energy independence and continuing the energy revolution. as part of an all-of-the-above strategy we need to domestically produce more oil, coal, natural gas and renewable energy like hydropower by utilizing currently untapped resources -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. mr. whitfield: i yield the gentlelady three additional minutes. mrs. mcmorris rodgers: thank you very much. there was a recent study that showed we could double hydropower...
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energy is one of the things he will talk about. the caller mentioned education and you will hear about those two things. but how can that grow our economy. for example, for education, they are talking about joe occasional training, tailored to certain businesses. maybe having something before kindergarten and also that we are going to hear things about clean jobs and clean energy. host: nebraska, independent line. caller: thanks c-span. my thing is, first of all, i'm a former marine. i'm hispanic and i keep watch on these guys talk about cuts and spending cuts and nancy pelosi, i don't know what planet she's on, but she says there is no spending problem. i see greece in our country and it's california, new york, illinois, baltimore, detroit. and they're not addressing what's happening in those states. and that's the reason i dumped out of the republican and democrat party. and dennis hastert, just before he retired, he drops an earmark boehm, $10 million right on his business interest in illinois. what's up with that? we are all in
energy is one of the things he will talk about. the caller mentioned education and you will hear about those two things. but how can that grow our economy. for example, for education, they are talking about joe occasional training, tailored to certain businesses. maybe having something before kindergarten and also that we are going to hear things about clean jobs and clean energy. host: nebraska, independent line. caller: thanks c-span. my thing is, first of all, i'm a former marine. i'm...
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to energy efficiencies. i believe europe is useful and good not just for europeans before the whole planet. the best way for europe to protect its own it interest is to protect its values are of the world. we need to come back to what the project is all about. it is a political project based on values and the knowledge, ideas, works of art, culture comic creativity. it is constantly reminding ourselves that we can be able to be up to the level of our past and maybe help on new generations to come. this is what people look to. we as europeans have this beyond ourselves. we should not regard it as a heritage to be protected but as a movement to be promoted. it is the cultural exception. it is the idea that words are not just goods to be treated like others. the cultural identity of my nation is important. pluralism and freedom need to be defended on a global scale. i called for the setting up of europe to protect its cultural dimension, guaranteeing intellectual copyright, determining together economic and tax
to energy efficiencies. i believe europe is useful and good not just for europeans before the whole planet. the best way for europe to protect its own it interest is to protect its values are of the world. we need to come back to what the project is all about. it is a political project based on values and the knowledge, ideas, works of art, culture comic creativity. it is constantly reminding ourselves that we can be able to be up to the level of our past and maybe help on new generations to...
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i do not think he has the ability to impose a national energy tax on americans without the authority of congress .arrie he may attempt to do this. >> what do you think about the plan to include in operations bill? >> there are a lot of options for how we move continuing resolutions. no decisions have been made about how to do that. thank you. >> what did you get mrs. boehner for valentine's day? >> good afternoon. we are on the floor about the legislation that affects -- we are running a few minutes late. this week on capitol hill we had the tail of two priorities. democrats want solutions, republicans want sequesters. democrats stand with the president's call for a balanced approach to create jobs, strengthen the middle class, grow the economy, and responsibly reduce the deficit. the publicans prefer delay and across the board cuts that are harmful. the education of our children, security of our country. on monday, i sent a letter to speaker boehner. the question i asked was, how can we leave for recess when we are so close to the sequester and we are so close to what could be a shu
i do not think he has the ability to impose a national energy tax on americans without the authority of congress .arrie he may attempt to do this. >> what do you think about the plan to include in operations bill? >> there are a lot of options for how we move continuing resolutions. no decisions have been made about how to do that. thank you. >> what did you get mrs. boehner for valentine's day? >> good afternoon. we are on the floor about the legislation that affects --...
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fewer restrictions on accessing energy under federal lands that can increase domestic energy supply. these are among the solutions we need, mr. speaker. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and stepped my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. waxman: 22 members of the house have banded together to create a safe climate conference to end the conspiracy of silence in this house of representatives about the dangers of climate change and the republican denial of its existence and their rejection of the science. we are committing to talk every single day on the house floor about the urgent need to address climate change. president obama is leading the way. he says we must respond to climate change because to do otherwise would be to betray our children and future generations. we are ready to get to work. we understand the threat facing our children and we know our nation has the know-
fewer restrictions on accessing energy under federal lands that can increase domestic energy supply. these are among the solutions we need, mr. speaker. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and stepped my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. waxman: 22 members of the house have...
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amplifying it is how you find the energy, and energy is what you can harness. if we have people and they are excited about what they're working on every day and they realize the next big hurdle is mobile, you can take that energy around the culture and find fun ways to apply it that can be really impactful. >> what are some of the things you found that we will see over the next few months? >> i do not like to talk about things before we do them. i do think a lot of the keys is what i have already talked about. there is a real opportunity to help guide people's daily habits in terms of the content they read. that is something we're really working on. all these daily habits, these -- news, sports, games, answers, groups -- these are the types of things where we have been underinvested in them. a little love will go a long way. yahoo! groups has not been refreshed in 11 years. it will go a long way if we start to modernize some of these products. >> when people get excited about technology, they forget about the role of design. going back to some of those routes a
amplifying it is how you find the energy, and energy is what you can harness. if we have people and they are excited about what they're working on every day and they realize the next big hurdle is mobile, you can take that energy around the culture and find fun ways to apply it that can be really impactful. >> what are some of the things you found that we will see over the next few months? >> i do not like to talk about things before we do them. i do think a lot of the keys is what...
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down our energy costs and we have the biggest market in the world. and if we try to improve our infrastructure a little bit more, then we are going to be that more competitive. i want to be honest with you, we aren't go to go bring back every job that has been lost to automation in the last decade. i was talking to some of the guys showing me their facilities who had been in manufacturing for 20 years and they explained how things have changed. used to be -- wanted to do the kind of stuff you guys are doing here. everything was done manually. now you have a computer and punching in stuff. so it's changed. and that means you can just produce a lot more with fewer people. but there are things we can do right now to accelerate the resurgence of american manufacturing. number one, we can create more centers for high tech manufacturing in america. last year, my administration created our first manufacturing innovation institute. we put it in youngstown, ohio, which had been hard hit when manufacturing started going overseas. and so you had a one shuttered
down our energy costs and we have the biggest market in the world. and if we try to improve our infrastructure a little bit more, then we are going to be that more competitive. i want to be honest with you, we aren't go to go bring back every job that has been lost to automation in the last decade. i was talking to some of the guys showing me their facilities who had been in manufacturing for 20 years and they explained how things have changed. used to be -- wanted to do the kind of stuff you...
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we lack a comprehensive approach to climate change, energy, transportation, medicare, social security, defense spending, immigration reform, gun violence, and even our postal system. we need to find that urgency to start to create a sensible energy policy that confronts climate change and reduces our reliance on foreign oil. we need that urgency to formulate a transportation plan so that states can address their crumbling infrastructure. and local businesses can get back to work. we need that urgency of now to reconfigure our security policy. make sensible cuts and fashion a force that prepares us for conflicts of the future and not the past. we need the urgency of now to make sensible changes to social security and medicare to ensure the vitality of these programs for generations to come. batered -- it will reward us with a more sensible energy policy, good roads, and a sustainable social welfare system. we will be rewarded with the stable economy and reduced market volatility. we cannot wait to act. we are borrowing 42 cents for every dollar we spend. we have to take sensible steps
we lack a comprehensive approach to climate change, energy, transportation, medicare, social security, defense spending, immigration reform, gun violence, and even our postal system. we need to find that urgency to start to create a sensible energy policy that confronts climate change and reduces our reliance on foreign oil. we need that urgency to formulate a transportation plan so that states can address their crumbling infrastructure. and local businesses can get back to work. we need that...
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the president wants to propose an energy tax. the president wants more stimulus spending, there will be no -- doesn't create jobs. i would expect the united states senate to go ahead and take it up. if the president wants more tax hikes that destroy jobs, then as democrat allies in the senate ought to take it up. this isn't the agenda that many americans are looking for, and i think many in the president's own party won't support those ideas. in the house we're going to continue to focus on what the american people's top priorities are -- creating jobs and cutting spending. for the last two years the house has done its work. we've passed legislation to tackle the tough challenges that america faces only to see our senate colleagues do nothing. well, those days are over. the house will continue to meet other obligations, but senate democrats must begin to do their work. that's why we passed the no budget no pay act, requiring the senate to pass a budget for the first time in four years. and that's why we're going to insist that th
the president wants to propose an energy tax. the president wants more stimulus spending, there will be no -- doesn't create jobs. i would expect the united states senate to go ahead and take it up. if the president wants more tax hikes that destroy jobs, then as democrat allies in the senate ought to take it up. this isn't the agenda that many americans are looking for, and i think many in the president's own party won't support those ideas. in the house we're going to continue to focus on...
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you decide how much energy want to put behind your decisions. i came to understand that i had control of my own destiny. at that point, i did not hate poverty anymore. i knew it was only temporary. i knew i could change that. to continue on the theme of education, in 1831, alexis day tocqueville came to america to study this country. europeans were fascinated. how could a fledgling nation be competing with them on virtually every level? this is impossible. the total was one to sort it out. he looked at our government -- cqueville was impressed. he said this is really something. he said, let me look at their education system. he was blown away. anybody finishing the second grade was completely literate. he could find a mountain man on the outskirts of society. he could have a political discussion. he could tell him how the government worked. take a look at the chapter on education in my latest group, "america the beautiful," which a writ with my wife. in that chapter, you will see questions extracted from the sixth grade exit exam from the 1800's
you decide how much energy want to put behind your decisions. i came to understand that i had control of my own destiny. at that point, i did not hate poverty anymore. i knew it was only temporary. i knew i could change that. to continue on the theme of education, in 1831, alexis day tocqueville came to america to study this country. europeans were fascinated. how could a fledgling nation be competing with them on virtually every level? this is impossible. the total was one to sort it out. he...